Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Oecophoridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Inga | |
Inga ancorata top 5 facts
Inga ancorata is a moth in the Oecophoridae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Guyana and Brazil.
The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are light yellow-ochreous, the markings dull crimson-pink suffusedly irrorated with purplish-fuscous. There are three acute-triangular costal spots, the first basal, nearly reaching the dorsum, the second antemedian, reaching half across the wing, connected with the first on the costal edge. The third is found at three-fourth and is smaller, its apex emitting a faint interrupted curved rosy line running to two-third of the dorsum. The stigmata is rosy, first the discal indicated by the apex of the second costal spot, the plical very small, obliquely beyond it and the second discal transverse-linear. There is a slender attenuated streak running from the third costal spot along the posterior part of the costa and termen to the tornus. The hindwings are whitish-yellowish.